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The End of Ideas: Liberation, Liberal Arts and The Closure of Yale-NUS

Daevan MangalmurtiApril 10, 2022April 13, 2022

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An interview with YCC slate candidates Mimi Papathanasopoulos and Esha Garg

Samantha Moon & Alexia DochnalApril 15, 2024January 31, 2025

Can you tell us a little bit about your backgrounds? Where are you from? What are your majors? What are your primary activities outside of class? Mimi: My name is Mimi Papathanasopoulos and I use she/her pronouns. I’m a sophomore…

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An interview with YCC slate candidates Celene Bennett and Juan Borrego

Grey BattleApril 15, 2024

Tell us about your background. Where are you from? What is your major at Yale? What are your primary activities outside of class?  Celene: I’m a sophomore in TD from Peachtree City, Georgia, majoring in Sociology. Outside of YCC, I…

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Paving the Road: How Yale is making New Haven into a college campus, street by street

Sylvan LebrunMarch 30, 2024

New Haven gets an extra $52 million, and Yale gets to close a single block to traffic. The city’s mayor and the university’s president shook hands on these terms in November of 2021, cementing a deal to significantly increase Yale’s…

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Uninvited Ears: The Debate over Audio Surveillance on New Haven Buses

Sovy PhamJanuary 18, 2024November 28, 2024

On a brisk November evening in New Haven, the bus was on time.  On a CT Transit bus, a young man clad in a fast food uniform was asleep. A middle-aged mother gripped tightly onto a stroller where her daughter…

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Unresolved: Affective Polarization in the Yale Political Union

Rory SchoenbergerJanuary 18, 2024

“People from the Right were just hissing at me and hissing at me and that made me very nervous and it honestly kind of ruined my first speaking experience… It kind of made me realize that maybe I wasn’t going…

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New Haven Line

Audrey CoombeOctober 30, 2023January 28, 2024

These stills are taken from Super 8 footage shot between New York City and New Haven in 2021, during the pandemic. I recorded these trips with the intention of remembering the often monotonous passages that would otherwise be forgotten. The…

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Happy at Yale? 

Patrik HaverinenMay 3, 2023May 3, 2023

For many Yale students, spring break is a much-needed time for rest and recovery. The jolt back to a busy routine following the break reminds students how little time is available for relaxation during schooltime. One of the students affected…

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Something, Somewhere: The Struggle to Create Space for Asian Americans in the Performing Arts

Samantha MoonMarch 30, 2023

Upon arriving at Yale in 2020, Sam Ahn, who has always been interested in theater, couldn’t help but notice the absence of a prominent Asian American theater community at Yale.  Now a junior, Ahn spends his Friday evenings in a…

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